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asciilifeform: a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish << where is soviet army ?
BingoBoingo: undata: Because 'Muricans share a weak soft language...
undata: some guy comes along and pledges to slap our oligarchs around; after a bit economic collapse they'd eat that shit up
decimation: peterl hosted a text version
gribble: WASP - Lone Wolf (122 pages) - White Aryan Resistance: <http://www.resist.com/WASP.pdf>; Wasp (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_(novel)>; One man against a whole planet: Eric Frank Russell's Wasp | Tor.com: <http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/one-man-against-a-whole-planet-eric-frank-russells-wasp>
BingoBoingo: undata: I'm just suggesting datacenter that can't be disconnected from a safe distance...
decimation: things get ugly. a few bombs go off. You are ordered out of your apc into the city.
undata: look, if you're going to present it as a given that the most effectively oppressive military complex on earth is about to disappear, you're going to have to justify that.
undata: a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish because the congressmen stop coming to work
thestringpuller: definitely but without a function chain of command the army is going to fragment into multiple "militias" in a serious disaster
undata: you guys are a bit wishful sometimes; I share the sentiment towards the us govt
decimation: 1.) "chain of command" orders military to 'crush' a city 2.) half the troops go awol, the other half are murdered by partisans 3.) "chain of command" no longer in command
undata: the military would still have a chain of command absent civilian authority
thestringpuller: ^- is this why they make so many disaster movies about the USG going underground during a disaster and trying to reclaim power?
BingoBoingo: Seems so, but I'll look a few years older and he same seems to hold
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah a few $mil will be 'required' one way or another
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: theo de raadt has a microvax somewhere in his cellar
asciilifeform: chinese << forget chinese. nothing i - a peasant - so much as breathed on - will ever be crowned 'eal'.
asciilifeform: no need for the 74xx to melt - enough to 'get lucky' and reach a metastable state in one or more switching elements
asciilifeform: a physical machine is not a theorem.
asciilifeform: decimation: the whole concept of 'formally verified' is a scam.
decimation: and got a note from stalin, etc
decimation: eal4 is a joke
BingoBoingo: decimation: Sure, handegg regular gameplay changes every year nao and Baseball hasn't had a real change since the mound was lowered because Bob Gibson
asciilifeform: this plus a chronic lack of my being able to muster giving a rat's arse
asciilifeform: a great many cultural in-jokes and tidbits that seem obvious to a 'native' but utterly opaque to others.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'd suggest playing the part of a Nationals or Baltimore Orioles fan next year, but given the proximity to District 1, dunno how you feel about anal probing
thestringpuller: Haha. BingoBoingo we should take asciilifeform to a baseball game.
BingoBoingo: Ah, that is a different dilema.
asciilifeform: stays in - in the sense that not once have i ever seen any reason to give a damn about it
asciilifeform confesses that he doesn't see anything whatsoever that may happen in a gladiatorial arena as 'silicon valley fucked'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The San Francisco Giants getting fucked by a team with a fraction of their payroll.
BingoBoingo: I dunno about Yall, but I am watching Silicon Valley getting fucked with a frozen turd wrought of their own ethical lapses.
asciilifeform: 10,000 btc << building a planet ?
asciilifeform: decimation: seems like a question that ought to be answerable, at least very approximately, without their cooperation
thestringpuller: he's a child rapist now?
asciilifeform: is there a chart of these sorted by hash/sec ?
thickasthieves: i had a lot of his baseball cards once
BingoBoingo: Mr. Pooped his pants in a casino, George Brett.
BingoBoingo: thickasthieves: All I ask for in life is to see Giancarlo Stanton with a better team. Any team oher than the Marlins will do.
thickasthieves: i watched every single red sox game for a couple seasons when pedro was the shit, then never watched again
decimation: yeah xbt is gay but it can be used as a wedge
decimation: canada counts as a country sorta
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Blame Obbumer stealing a team for DC
decimation: nor is really a web
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Fuck you, Canada still has a team.
decimation: well there are a few canadian teams
cazalla: nfi, i have not watched/played since i was a kid
BingoBoingo: It is just hard thought to explain how perfect Kaufman is as a baseball stadium
BingoBoingo: The way the World Baseball classic works is usually the Whole United States gets beat by a small part of the US
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Well, a lot of players are latin american
decimation: he was flying the first production model of the tbm-900, a single-engine turboprop plane
decimation: it turns out that the pilot of the 'zombine plane' that flew over cuba and crashed had asked the usg air controller for a lower altitude twice http://www.flyingmag.com/technique/accidents/doomed-tbm-900-pilot-twice-asked-lower-altitude
TheNewDeal: Anyone attempted to sell a call option on BTC for a cash trade. If so, how was it received by the other party?
assbot: Video shows a man got onto White House grounds, was surrounded by Secret Service agents. Man literally punched a dog that ran at him.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Sh... let me kill a few more cat converters first
BingoBoingo: For the hell of it I may or may not have driven a tank of leaded gas winter of 2006...
mircea_popescu: Opal is a variety of low-aromatic << that'd be a problem
kakobrekla: as promised i have setup a mirror for ze logs - http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com - hosting for the mirror gratuitously provided by mircea_popescu
decimation: I have a friend who works in a hospital indian health service (branch of usg). she says the majority of us indians are drunks
cazalla: yeah, they lock the bowser at some petrol stations because they come in with a jerry can, fill up and leave without paying
mircea_popescu: this idea that what people want matters as a universal...
cazalla: decimation, they're not all bad, i had a good abo mate through school but once they hit 13, they just want to go lighting fires and breaking into corner shops etc etc sniffing a bit of 98 octane as well
mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, this is a disguised gift of stock from directors / interested parties to company
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't a valid number.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: that's what I thought but based on these numbers...($2491 for ~13mn shares doesn't add up to the published market value as it looks like the ask value is ~ 8 cents a share)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> best take people at their peak << Great value of a WoT system as here has is you can know what their bottom is
mircea_popescu: you know if you dig deep enough everyone's going to have a bunch of idiotic notions.
decimation: assange and his crew struck me as a naive bunch whose position is "we want a loving mommy state"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Cazalla as head of qntra was a gift that keeps giving. Dude knows tone.
decimation: the c-machine is a mistake, but ganging multiple c-machines was an even bigger mistake
decimation: qnx was fun. did they ever have a multiprocessing variant?
asciilifeform: 'They are not the first to blame Ebola for an ancient plague. Scientists and classicists in San Diego reported in 1996 that the symptoms of the plague of Athens around 430 BC, described by Thucydides, are remarkably similar to Ebola, including a distinctive retching or hiccupping. Apart from that, many of the symptoms of that plague- – and one in Constantinople in AD 540 – -were similar to the Black Death.'
asciilifeform: it is only less of a turd than other unix-likes because:
asciilifeform: actually it had connections, and, afaik, still runs on various 'if they told you they'd have to kill you' hardware - but not a going concern
asciilifeform: qnx << a very interesting item, and i loved playing with it when young, but it was inevitably bulldozed by the age of no-you-can't-make-money-selling-close-os-unless-you-re-apple-or-microshit
cazalla: i got a response from paydici if anyone was interested in yesterdays article http://qntra.net/2014/10/bitpay-to-assist-paydici-to-enable-bitcoin-based-recurring-billing/
bounce: full source is never going to work on a floppy, unless you can make xor compression work
bounce: then split it in a full build-everything-from-source thing and a shrunk binary-only thing
BingoBoingo: joecool: BB9 was perfect for what a person could expect out of a mobile turd os though
bounce: boost is a bit ludicrous, even for the c++ course
asciilifeform: if someone wants to try building a cpp preprocessor using tinycc - be the hero, yes.
BingoBoingo: Boost is a bitch
bounce: switch to a smaller cc first? :-p
BingoBoingo: bounce: Well worse is when the company buys a floundering product and hides it to success like Intel did with DEC ALpha
bounce: then again, bb is floundering too. won't be the first time some company buys up something good for a bout of fleeing forward, goes down anyway and takes the good with it
bounce: well yeah I'm not too happy bb bought it up, no matter how good it'd be for them. qnx was a bit floundering though, that with everyone running off to leen0x and no real hardware incentive for what makes qnx special. just throw more hardware at the problem and it's sorted. (the beancounters think)
BingoBoingo: What there's a temporary Vag shortage so queefing is out of the question
BingoBoingo: <bounce> qnx was a thing way before blackberry existed << Indeed, but way for a decent RTOS to ruin the last Mobile OS
bounce: they did a one floppy demo once (twice, there's the xmas edition) that let you boot a full graphical desktop plus browser
bounce: qnx was a thing way before blackberry existed
nubbins`: and an excuse to own a small hammer
thestringpuller: so once you figure that out, nubbins can do a good printing job
thestringpuller: a writer buddy of mine does bookbinding of journals as one of his fanatical things
jurov: with a patch to mailman?
BingoBoingo: <jurov> so you say what will be hosted - only list of patches and a script << I actually imagined set of books for the core an annumal supplement book of refinemnts
asciilifeform: jurov: also host a copy of the present state of the mailing list, perhaps
asciilifeform: the somewhere, incidentally, is a stable satoshi-based gizmo worth using as a base for rewrite (idk about other folks, i shall rewrite for my own pleasure if no one wants, once finished with current affairs) - and perhaps worth printing!
jurov: so you say what will be hosted - only list of patches and a script
asciilifeform: the only way to emphasize the gravity of submitting a change to bitcoind.